I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that ….

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

All the backstories are there but not talked about..

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love..

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands..

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live..

I don't do live things..

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it..

Nobody understands your life, but you..

It's not the words but the music that counts..

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person..

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction..

It is poetry that changes everything..

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside..

In business for yourself, but not by yourself..

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it.

I am happy being what I am..

Own nothing, control everything..